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Lundi said Robert G. McCloskey, assistant professor of Government, and Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, agreed to speak at the rally, and contracts were signed with numerous entertainers. Three bands, including the 52-piece Amvet assemblage, several Latin Quarter performers, singer Fred Hall, who is now at Boston's Showbar, and a long motorcade of "jalopies" were scheduled to appear...
...McCloskey said that he is "not really delighted" with the position of the Democrats on civil rights, however...
...McCloskey has a bunch that the Republicans will make McCarthyism an "increasingly significant issue" in the closing weeks of the campaign. He fears that, encouraged by the Senator's victory in Wisconsin, the Republicans will be tempted to use McCarthyism as another "Bloody Shirt of the Rebellion." He cited a "similar" attempt by Adolf Hitler, who conjured up threats of subversion in order to keep himself in power...
...McCloskey feels that Stevenson has "injected a note of candor into American politics that is unusual and refreshing. He recognizes the subtleties and the difficulties of the problems we face and is likely to approach them in a spirit which might actually lead to their solution," McCloskey said...
...McCloskey added, "I'm not and never was very enthusiastic about a general in the White House. Almost by definition a general is unlikely to understand the nature of free speech and its necessity...